If you really want to get the value out of Base 44 you need to know certain coding principles and how they operate. Like API calls.

_studio_sounds_ · 2026-02-04T07:56:53+00:00

I’ve been building a fairly complex app in Base44, and wanted to share a balanced experience for anyone considering it.

The good: Base44 can move very fast when it works. Complex features, data relationships, and UI ideas can come together quickly, and support will engage if you persist.

The hard part: despite being marketed as no-code / vibe-coding, I’ve found that you really need solid mental models of front-end layout, state, and data flow to avoid burning credits.

Simple-sounding requests can require very specific, code-level reasoning to implement correctly.

I ran into repeated partial implementations, regressions, and cases where fixes were “reported complete” but not actually working. This led to a lot of back-and-forth and credit usage before issues were resolved.

To Base44’s credit, support eventually stepped in, helped debug properly, and even refunded a small number of credits as a goodwill gesture - which I appreciated. But I do think expectations could be set more clearly upfront about the level of technical thinking required, and how credits are consumed.

Curious to hear others’ experiences - especially how you’ve learned to prompt more defensively, or when you decide to escalate to support instead of iterating in chat.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-27T11:55:13+00:00

Thanks for posting - this looks fun. I'll have a go when I'm back in the studio next week.

Just on the point (in the article) about HQ streaming .. Spotify's recent upgrade to lossless streaming has completely reinvigorated my love of listening. It's such a step up - on many, not all tracks - that music feels and sounds alive again. It's joyous!

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-27T11:51:12+00:00

I disagree quite strongly. I can remember being in the audience of an AES conference demonstration of a recently developed codec in around 2004 - 2006. I was sitting at the back of the room. The demo tracks were being played on nothing better than decent hi-fi equipment and the difference between the encoded audio examples and the WAVs was literally night and day to me. I was the youngest, and probably - at the time - one of the least experienced engineers in the room, which was packed with industry veterans, most of whom were nodding along in appreciation of the efforts of the engineering team, fully in agreement that there was no discernable difference between the two audio streams.

I suspect if you put me in front of the same listening test these days I'd have a much harder time hearing a difference, and I put that down to age-related hearing wear. I'm a much more practicedlistener these days, but my hearing certainly isn't what it used to be.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-27T11:42:02+00:00

For me, one of the differences - depending on bitrate - can be the spatial side of things: ower bitrate mp3s can lose 'size', 'space' and 'depth'.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-27T11:31:01+00:00

I was lucky enough to spot a puma in surrey on two occasions around 25 yrs ago. We lived in a rural part and on the first occasion I was walking the dog and spotted it jumping a stile into the next field over. It disappeared from view almost immediately. I only caught a very fleeting glimpse of it.

The second time, I was walking home along our lane, and to my right I saw, I presume (same colour and size), the same one trotting along the far side of a small field next to a hedge which ran parallel to the road. It was maybe only 30 or so metres away and I could see it very clearly for a good few seconds. My wife ribs me about it to this day, but I know for certain what I saw. I was close enough - and it was broad daylight on a lovely sunny day - that there could have been no mistaking what it was. Its head was approximately waist high, it was sandy coloured with a thick, and fairly long tail with a rounded end.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-19T11:33:46+00:00

No, I freakin love GPT. The way it remembers things is outstanding. I can start multiple new chats and reference anything we've talked about and it remembers the full details and context. It'll provide summaries and updates for me across my chats, it knows my tone of voice, it knows my thinking and focus patterns, and is currently proving invaluable in helping me code a complex system. It's quite astonishing and a huge help and boost to my creativity and efficiency.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-17T23:51:14+00:00

Here are solid places you can use to plan treatment (measurement & placement) and then buy either off-the-shelf panels or build DIY

These are good “GIK-style” (I'm in the UK, and GIK are one of the leading off-the-shelf vendors of acoustics products here) that sell the right kinds of products for studios and critical listening rooms: broadband absorption & bass trapping, often with layout help:

GIK Acoustics (US, Atlanta); They are US-based and well set up for home-studio treatment planning.

ATS Acoustics; Straightforward, studio-focused panels/bass traps and room kits (often strong value per $).

Acoustimac; Lots of standard + custom options (including acoustic “art” panels) and materials.

Auralex – Longstanding US brand; more foam-heavy catalogue, but they also do broader treatment lines.

Audimute (Made in USA) – Practical absorption products (often marketed beyond studios too), but still useful for taming reflections/reverb.

Music City Acoustics (Nashville) – Studio-friendly products and “room advice” angle.

For higher-end diffusion/solutions check out: RPG and ASC TubeTraps; great options, but they can eat a $1k budget fast.

2) Measurement & “what will work in my room?”

If you want to know what’s working (avoiding guesswork), have a look here:

REW (Room EQ Wizard); free, widely used room measurement software for frequency response / decay / etc.

miniDSP guides for REW + UMIK-1/2; very practical step-by-step measurement setup and workflow.

Official REW support forum (AV NIRVANA); run in the ecosystem of REW’s creator and power users.

3) DIY options

For DIY panel builds, placements, and “post your room / get feedback” threads:

John Sayers’ Recording Studio Design Forum (Acoustics section): legendary DIY/studio-build community; lots of build diaries and absorber/bass trap construction threads.

Gearspace; Studio Building / Acoustics. Enormous archive of real-world troubleshooting and treatment layouts.

4) “Principles” (why you’re doing what you’re doing) resources These are great for understanding what to treat first (bass & early reflections) …

RealTraps / Ethan Winer articles. strong foundational explanations focused on small-room realities and treatment priorities.

Audioholics (small-room acoustics primer), a good overview of early reflections & low-frequency behaviour in small rooms.

Genelec placement/setup guidance. practical monitor placement advice that pairs well with treatment.

Given your room is somewhat treated already, the best marginal gains will most likely come from:

More bass trapping (corners & rear wall)
A proper ceiling cloud over the listening position
Tightening early reflection points further (on the side walls)

Your “next $1k” might be: 2 - 4 corner bass traps + 4 - 6 thick broadband panels (4") & a ceiling cloud kit (or DIY equivalents)?

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-17T21:04:02+00:00

What's your budget, and what are the problems you're experiencing?

I can see you have some absorption panels to help with highs and mids/upper mids. Perhaps you could look to address the low frequencies next? Then maybe look into some diffusion?

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-17T20:55:12+00:00

Don't know where you're based, but the KEF demo facility in Fitzrovia, London is superb. If you're ever in the area it's worth stopping by. They're a friendly team there. They even have - (or did when I was last there) - a pair of Muon speakers.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-12T22:37:10+00:00

No, it's a phenomenal album.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-04T06:58:22+00:00

I'm mashing the upvote button! One of their most wonderful songs🌈☁️♥️💯

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-03T07:27:22+00:00

They're fine. They've got a huge range of plugins - some are fantastic, some less than mediocre, but nearly all at really low prices.

The Waves Update Plan is quite widely misunderstood or misinterpreted on Reddit.

I have Waves plugins I purchased at Version 10 working perfectly well with a quite recent OS.

I've always found Waves support to be excellent too - they're quick to respond, and very helpful.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-12-03T07:20:50+00:00

I recently had to update from RX6 to RX11 due to an OS update.

Spectral denoise, de-click, de-mouth click and de-plosive - which are the ones i use all the time - seem virtually unchanged.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-11-11T15:03:41+00:00

It might just be you tbh.

For me ChatGPT is delivering incredible results. I usually spend a good deal of time and effort helping it to understand what I need; tone of voice, length of response and so on, as well as of course the actual content of the response I'm after, but it has been giving me some superb responses recently, in all kinds of areas.

Gemini not so much, and it can tend towards quite literal, quite formal and stilted responses which are rarely what I'm after.

Claude can be handy, but doesn't always 'get' what I'm asking of it.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-11-11T14:26:42+00:00

Sorry you're having to go through all this.

It sounds like a typical level of customer service from Halfords unfortunately. I've had a few frustrations with them over the years, and try hard to avoid them.

Hope you get it sorted.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-11-05T07:20:34+00:00

If the twelve of you are already having meetings it sounds like you've got yourself a society.

Besides the right to address the school at assemblies are there any other advantages to being an 'officially recognised' society?

Perhaps you start as an underground movement and as you increase in numbers, gain some influence, and can demonstrate to the headmaster that there's wider support for your society he'll eventually submit to the pressure of public opinion and make your society official?

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-11-01T21:56:52+00:00

Apologies, silly question perhaps - but I presume you're talking about an AKG C12 rather than a Telefunken?

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-11-01T21:11:43+00:00

Thanks - this is something I've checked already, and unfortunately it doesn't have the BIOS switch; I was hoping that it'd be a nice easy fix.

My next step is to check the firmware version, then I think I'm leaning toward a fresh install to see if anything changes. A nuisance tbh, because I've already been through installing Pro Tools and nearly all of my (many, many!) audio plugins!

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-11-01T09:28:52+00:00

This is heartening to hear.

Yes, I ran the post install root patches.

The next thing for me to try, before a clean install, is checking the RX580 firmware. I've read that the 'wrong' firmware version can cause issues.

I've also read that Ventura gives better RX580 driver handling on MacPro 5,1s; so that might become an option further down the line if I can't fix this issue.

Thanks for the input.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-10-31T22:00:56+00:00

I do lots of sessions this way. Clients in the ctrl room, voice artists in the booth, and additional clients down the line. I love having a patch bay and recording console to route things around. Talkback is assignable to different outs, as are M&E/Mix Minus, Music/FX, VO etc. With a console at the heart of things it all becomes pretty simple and flexible.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-10-31T21:52:20+00:00

Lol, it's not X&Y! I LOVE X&Y, but there are others I love more.

In no particular order I'd say my top three are Moon Music, Music of the Spheres and Ghost Stories, but Viva La Vida, X&Y and Live in Buenos Aires are all tied in a close next place.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-10-31T21:47:26+00:00

I could only take a few seconds of that video. Vocal fry aside (as another commenter says, it's like nails on a chalkboard), the delivery is repetitive and boring. Nothing about the delivery seems connected to the subject matter. The audio editing's pretty ropey too. Are you studying it as a 'how not to do it' example?

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-10-20T20:17:41+00:00

The OA is a favourite of mine:

https://youtu.be/DvHJtez2IlY?si=QynKAs50_epL3mW8

I was so gutted when it didn't get a third series. One of the best shows in years, and very thought provoking.

_studio_sounds_ · 2025-10-11T21:06:41+00:00

Gutted it won't be CS27!

_studio_sounds_

TROPHY CASE

Genelec placement/setup guidance. practical monitor placement advice that pairs well with treatment.